- Title
- Towards transversal cosmopolitanism: understanding alternative praxes in the global field of transformative movements
- Creator
- Hosseini, S. A. Hamed; Gills, Barry K.; Goodman, James
- Relation
- Globalizations Vol. 14, Issue 5, p. 667-684
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1217619
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- This article critically reflects on theoretical dilemmas of conceptualizing recent ideological shifts and contention among global transformative movements. Some studies conceptualize these movements as ideologically mature and coherent, while other inquiries highlight disorganization, fragmentation, disillusion, and dispute. The former line of argument suggests that underlying emerging global solidarities—to the extent they genuinely exist—there are some identifiably coherent cosmopolitanist, or globalist, values. The latter claim that existing global justice and transformative movements lack an effective ideological position for uniting the masses behind a global (political) project for transforming global capitalist social relations. By drawing upon an interpretive review of empirical studies conducted throughout the last decade, the article delineates four modalities, defined in terms of their orientations toward cosmopolitanist values. Among these modalities is a new and promising one, termed here as ‘transversal cosmopolitanist’ (‘transversal’ here understood as a process verb, indicating a new form of cosmopolitanist praxis). This approach assumes the possibility of creating a common ground for fruitful dialogue, constructive collective learning, progressive hybridization, and active political cooperation among diverse identities and ideological visions of contemporary global transformative movements, against existing capitalist social relations and structures of domination.
- Subject
- cosmopolitanism; transversalism; meta-ideology; transformative movements
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1352542
- Identifier
- uon:30909
- Identifier
- ISSN:1474-774X
- Rights
- Copyright 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
- Language
- eng
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